Flores, Maria E.; Flores, Mary Ann (mother/daughter). Discovery Green Park, 2009-11-29T12:30:00
Interview Description
Maria E. Flores (82) is interviewed by her daughter, Mary Ann Flores (58) about growing up in Kenedy, TX and her family history.
1:21 Maria describes a picture that Mary Ann is holidng: a Model T Ford, Maria's mother pregnant in the photo
7:43 Life in Edinburg; description of the first house Maria lived in in Edinburg; wood burning stove; food; mother remarried after her father died
21:01 How Maria met her husband; married 1944; lived with her husband's parents in a house without running water; washing to clothes on Saturday
25:40 picking cotton during the summer; canning tomatoes and making salsa; nopales
36:07 holiday traditions: tamales, buñuelos, nopalitos; Maria's first memory of her daughter
Dates
- Creation: 2009-11-29T12:30:00
Topical
- Birth
- Buñuelos
- Catholic
- Catholicism
- Children
- Christmas
- Christmas traditions
- Community History
- Dances
- Death
- Edinsburg, TX
- El Lucero
- Ethnic Foods
- Extended Family
- Farm Life
- Favorite Foods
- First Meetings
- Genealogy
- Grandparents
- Houston, TX
- Immigration Stories
- Kenedy, TX
- Legacy
- Marriage
- Parents
- Picking Cotton
- Schools
- Siblings
- Singing
- Spanish Land Grants
- Students
- Tamales
- Teachers
- Town Life
- War Stories
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- birth of first child
- dancing
- family characters
- family heroes
- family members in history
- family naming and nicknames
- family traditions
- family trips and excursions
- historical events/people
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- nopales
- nopalitos
- personal experiences
- proudest moments
- ranch life
- religious beliefs and practices
- ritual foods
- schoolyard games
- spouse
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu